Veljko Kadijevic

Veljko Kadijevic (21 November 1925-2 November 2014) was the Defense Minister of Yugoslavia from 15 May 1988 to 8 January 1992, succeeding Branko Mamula and preceding Blagoje Adzic.

Biography
Veljko Kadijevic was born in Imotski, Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1925, the son of a Serb father and a Croat mother. He joined the Yugoslav Partisans in 1941 and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1943, graduating from the Belgrade Military Academy after the end of World War II. In 1988, he became Defense Minister of Yugoslavia, and he remained a committed communist even after the dissolution of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. In 1992, he resigned as Defense Minister, and he died in exile in Moscow, Russia in 2014, having avoided prosecution by the ICTY war crimes tribunal.